Approval-sheet for stamps



(No Model.)

R. F. ALBRECHT. APPROVAL SHEET FOB STAMPS. No. 454,416. Patented June16,1891.

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WITNESSES: wa /W 5M Wqy RUDOLF F. ALBRECHT, OF TOMPKINSVILLE, ASSIGNORTO JOHN OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

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APPROVAL-SHEET FOR STAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 454,416, dated June16, 1891. Application filed March 5,1891. Serial No. 383,815- (NO model.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUDOLF F. ALBRECHT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Tompkinsville, in the county of Richmond and State of NewYork,have invented new and useful Improvements in Approval-Sheets forStamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to approval-sheets IO for stamps, and is designedto prevent the changing without detection of any stamp or articleoriginally fixed to the sheet.

The invention consists in certain novel fea tures, which are hereinafterdescribed, refer- I5 ence being had to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a front view approval-sheet constructe of a portionof an d according to my lnvention. Fig. 2 is a back view of the same.Fig. 3 is a section on the line a; to of Figs. 1

and 2.

Approval-sheets for exhibiting and displaying stamps for inspection andexamination are marked off 011 their front faces into suit abledivisions of proper size for the stamps to be exhibited. The stamps arefixed to the sheet by means of gummed tags applied to the stamps andsheet. The sheets .(one or more) having stamps thus secured to them aresent by dealers to customers who desire to examine them, and who, aftermaking their selections, are expected to send them back to the dealersin the same condition as when sent, except as to those which arepurchased 3 5 and retained by the customers at the prices which may bemarked on the sheet below the several stamps. This method of exhibitionof the stamps gives an opportunity to those who are dishonest to purloinvaluable and rare stamps by detaching them from the sheet andsubstituting cheap or inferior stamps in place thereof.

The object of my invention, therefore, is to prevent the change orremoval of any stamp 5 or article originally fixed to the sheet and thesubstitution therefor of one that is inferior or of less value, and ifany such change is effected to detect the culprit.

I carry out my invention by providing the sheet A with tongues B, cut orpunched out ions 0 of the s11 be of any to itself, an opening dle partof the to along its bottom drawings. T

and a stamp or thereto the stamp tongue. T placed on t openings E.

shall extend in cc of said 0 of the b is expo tuted slam the appropiback of the stain consequently any other article can 1 from the sheetwithin eet.

the respective divis- The tongues are not 1e sheet, but are left Thetongues may are integral portions 5 5;

E, which may be at the mid- 6o otl nti

sed through said opening means the removal from the sh stamp or articleGand the substitution of another stamp in its place can be readiltected, as the exposed back of such s p or article will not have upon it'iate mark or impression aforesaid. I do not restrict in tongues fromthe body It will be observed that made through the sheet u cupied by thestamp, back of the stamp is versing the sheet, and any made on the backof the sl opening will come upon the portion of the p which is soexposed, and

ngue or along either side or edge, as is illustrated in the he faces ofthe several tongues are provided with gums or other suitable adhesivematerial F, which is dried, so that when afterward the gummed surface ismoistened er article G is applied article will adhere to the he stampsor other articles G are he tongues in such cover the openings E, so thatsheet over upon its face with it most a portion of the backs of otherarticles is exposed to view While the shoe tion it is marked or stampedn ient marking or stamping too nor that the mark or ll nuation acrossthe edges pening and come upon the portion ack of the stamp or article Gwhich on turning the s back upperthe stamps or through said it-h anyconvenlin such a mannpression made thereby E, by which eet of suchubstiyself to forming the Y of the sheet.

the openings E are nder the space ocso that a portion of the exposed toview on reieet across the substitution of a stamp or Je at oncedetected.

positions as to 7c t is in this posi- 75 y demark or print 5 hat I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An approval-sheet for stamps or other articies provided withperforations or openings 5 made in them through which a portion of thebacks of the stamps or articles affixed to the front of the sheet isexposed to View, substantialiy as and for the purpose above described.

In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing xo witnesses.

RUDOLF F. ALBRECHT.

V WVitnesses:

J. VAN SANTVOORD, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

